Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 21765
WordPerfect Install Error
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:30:07 EDT
Upon installing a Red Hat Custom installation on a Pentium 100 system with all broad package categories selected except for Laptop Support and Games, I cannot get WordPerfect 8.0 to install. As root user, I successfully copied the GUILG00.GZ file to its own /WP directory (after several attempts at using /usr/local/wp, and /home/<user> directories with the same result). I can successfully gunzip and untar the files. I end up with Runme, Readme and about 6-8 other files. When I ./Runme, the files start extracting. Midway through I get an error message similar to : ./install.wp/ ....[10-16] expecting integer. Then I get several screenfuls of chmod: /shlib/ blah blah : File or directory not found. Then it reaches 100% and asks for a destination directory which it rejects. I end up with Readme, Runme and about 6-8 *.bk files which I can't get anything to work. I know the WP binaries are not corrupted because I tried my other WP8 cdrom and the same exact thing happens. Is there a library problem. Should I install an older lib package and how would I go about this?
This is not a Linux bug. About the only thing I can suggest is that Word Perfect, being a binary-only proprietary package is built with older library packages. You'll likely have to install older libs to get it to work. I recommend contacting Corel for tech support, or trying one of the Red Hat public mailing lists (guinness-list) where someone else may have solved this problem already.